Excretion of glycerol by the marine Chlamydomonas sp. strain W-80 in high CO2 cultures

Journal of Fermentation and Bioengineering

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 122-124

  Miyasaka, Hitoshi ^a   Ohnishi, Yosuke ^b   Akano, Toru ^a   Fukatsu, Kiyomi ^a   Mizoguchi, Tadashi ^c   Yagi, Kiyohito ^c   Maeda, Isamu ^c   Ikuta, Yoshiaki ^d   Matsumoto, Hiroyo ^d   Shioji, Norio ^d   Miura, Yoshiharu ^a  

^a KANSAI ELECTRIC POWER CO   (Japan)

^b The General Environmental Technos Co Ltd   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide; Chlamydomonas; Glycerol; Green alga; Hydrogen

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHARACTERIZATION; GLYCEROL; GROWTH KINETICS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT CELL CULTURE;

CHLAMYDOMONAS; GLYCEROL EXCRETION; GREEN ALGA;

BIOTECHNOLOGY;

GLYCEROL;

ARTICLE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CULTURE MEDIUM; EXCRETION; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS GROWTH; GROWTH RATE; NONHUMAN; OSMOREGULATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ALGAE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLOROPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI;

EID: 0031950943     PISSN: 0922338X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0922-338X(97)80367-4     Document Type: Article

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